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Re: Hurd Newsbee: Cant Boot After Installation



On Mon, 4 Nov 2002 aml111@student.cs.york.ac.uk wrote:

> Confused me for a while as well. You can initialize the main root
> partition, but the others dump you back to the start of the installation
> process (the notices...), and don't let you specify a mount point (is
> this a bug in the installer??). As for reboot - you need a GRUB bootdisk
> (or GRUB as your main bootloader), and to boot from that with commands
> like:

Deliberate, otherwise everything falls over.

> root(hd0,0)   ; /dev/hda1 in Linux-speak, /dev/hd0s1 in HURD-Speak
> kernel /boot/gnumach.gz root=/dev/hd0s0
> module /boot/serverboot.gz
> boot
>
> This is all detailed in the cookbook file (which seems out of date) -
> mix those instructions with instructions given by the
> ./native-install.sh script.

Hmmm, must look at this.

Phil.

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